Sentences with phrase «of civil and environmental engineering»

«This could be just the beginning of impact on these areas,» said Jennifer Jacobs, professor of civil and environmental engineering.

«Normally, we want to discourage these gases from forming,» said Craig Criddle, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford.

«It's not that big floods are getting bigger, but that we have been experiencing a larger number of big floods,» says Gabriele Villarini, UI assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, published Feb. 9 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Climate Change.

«Converting to wind, water and sunlight is feasible, will stabilize costs of energy and will produce jobs while reducing health and climate damage,» said Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering.

For the past 24 years, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has been developing a complex computer model to study air pollution, energy, weather and climate.

«Ocean dynamics are directly connected to global climate through interactions with the atmosphere,» says John Dabiri, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at Stanford University and senior author of the paper in Nature.

«It's absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil — we think it's a myth,» said Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.

«The finding that shocks us is that when it comes to how much [nitrogen dioxide] a person breathes, it's still race that matters,» said senior author Julian Marshall, professor of civil and environmental engineering, in a press release.

This is how Costas Synolakis, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Southern California, described the situation in Italy and elsewhere in Europe in «Why Young Buildings Failed in Old Towns,» a Dot Earth post published shortly after the L'Aquila disaster:

1 February 2018 — Jonathan P. Stewart, professor and chair of the civil and environmental engineering department at University of California, Los Angeles, was chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Bruce A. Bolt Medal, which is awarded jointly by the Seismological Society of America (SSA), the Consortium of Organizations for Strong - Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI).

Co-principal investigators were Dr. Edward Miles, UW professor of marine affairs and head of the Climate Impacts Group, and Dr. Dennis Lettenmaier, UW professor of civil and environmental engineering.

1 February 2018 — Jonathan P. Stewart, professor and chair of the civil and environmental engineering department at University of California, Los Angeles, was chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Bruce A. Bolt Medal, which is awarded jointly by the Seismological Society of America (SSA), the Consortium of Organizations for Strong - Motion... Continue Reading»

Amanda Sain, right, works with Andrea Dietrich, left, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech.

That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.

«My colleagues in India were showing off some of their rooftop solar installations, and I was blown away by how dirty the panels were,» said Michael Bergin, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University and lead author of the study.

The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications by graduate students Chun - Teh Chen and Chern Chuang, professor of civil and environmental engineering Markus Buehler, and three others.

Carlos Sun, an MU professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Yi Hou a doctoral student at Mizzou, co-authored the study.

With assistance from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the MU College of Engineering, tested the use of variable advisory speed limit (VASL) systems and the effect they may have on lessening congestion and reducing rear - end and lane - changing accidents on a fairly dangerous stretch of I - 270, a major four - lane highway in St. Louis.

Geiger and Salvo plan to collaborate with Aaron Packman, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, on studying urban metabolites in Chicago.

The new findings are reported in the journal Physical Review Letters in a paper by Ruben Juanes, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, graduate student Amir Pahlavan, research associate Luis Cueto - Felgueroso, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley.

«If you can't turn the well so it goes along the shale formation and a lot of the well is exposed to the gas, you can't get the gas out economically,» says Anthony Ingraffea, a hydraulic fracturing expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University.

This fieldwork piggybacks on a recent finding by Jessica Lundquist, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and her lab that shows that tree cover actually causes snow to melt more quickly on the western slopes of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains and other warm, Mediterranean - type climates around the world.

«The research indicates that this is a source of methane that should not be ignored,» said Michael Celia, the Theodore Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

«All you need is air and water» to create acid mine drainage, said Ron Cohen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines who has been involved in mine remediation internationally.

The findings, the result of microscopic analysis of bacteria inside microfluidic devices, were made by MIT postdoc Roberto Rusconi, former MIT postdoc Jeffrey Guasto (now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University), and Roman Stocker, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT.

«HiRISE gives us 0.3 - meter [one - foot] resolution on the ground, so we can combine those orbital images with ground images to identify rocks from the orbiter and the ground,» Ron Li, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, explained at a recent American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Angela Bielefeldt * is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.

«With agriculture and urbanization, Canada has lost a huge portion of its wetlands, which have had a number of environmental impacts,» said Nandita Basu, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

«Maintenance of Traffic for Innovative Geometric Designs Work Zones,» recently was published in the Transportation Research Record, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MU, and Tim Kope and Amir Khezerzadeh, students in the MU College of Engineering, co-authored the paper.

«Our results show that subtle features such as this junction configuration have a significant impact on thermal transport,» said Shahsavari, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.

Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of productive wetland habitat using existing resources.

«Agriculture rarely gets considered for air pollution control strategies,» said Cohan, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

«It seems to have worked for at least one of the congeners studied,» says Tim Mattes, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecological Engineering.

«For this study, GRACE served as a unique tool that provided information on water volume changes directly from space, and corroborated the water balance estimates,» said Hyongki Lee, a co-author of the study and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston.

These latecomers to the research scene, called anammox bacteria, are the subject of a new study led by Daniel Noguera and Katherine McMahon, professors of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«Coral reefs are referred to as rain forests of the sea,» said Marcelino, a research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.

«Due to global warming, oil exploration in the Arctic has become feasible along with the shipment of oil through the Northwest Passage, the water body between Canada and the Arctic that used to be frozen throughout the year, but has now become open for navigation in the summer,» noted Boufadel, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who specializes in the impact of oil spills on coastal regions and, more generally, on oil behavior in diverse environments.

Gabriele Villarini, UI associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, says researchers honed in on predicting the impacts of tropical cyclones because that information is generally more useful than typical forecasts that predict how many storms are expected in a season.

«This is pushing coal off the grid,» said Daniel Cohan, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University.

We aimed to develop an analytical method that would be as broad as possible,» said Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.

Stephen H. Levine, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering, developed the computer model to rapidly compare the predicted efficacy of vasectomy (vs. castration) and hysterectomy (vs. ovariohysterectomy).

«We are considering extreme cases,» said Ning Lin, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

The study, co-authored by Dichtel, Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, and members of their research groups at Northwestern and Cornell, recently was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Shahsavari is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.

So I initially thought there was no way drones could compete with trucks on carbon dioxide emissions,» said senior author Anne Goodchild, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

Now, a team of researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton who experienced the storm while in Lebanon, have found a more likely cause for the unprecedented storm — it was not human conflict, but a combination of climatic factors and unusual weather.

A dust storm that blanketed seven nations in the Middle East in late summer 2015 was caused by climate factors and unusual weather, not human conflict in Syria, concluded researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

«If everyone has the same information, then there may be an overreaction,» says Moshe Ben - Akiva, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Zhang, who is a research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northwestern, came up with the initial idea.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.